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H. WEIS.

(No Model.)

GELL CASE.

Patented May 12, 1891 INVENTOR WITNESSES @Q UMU.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFri'cE.

HENRY WVEIS, OF BURLINGTON, IOWVA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 452,115, dated May 12,1891.

@ Application filed August 80, 1890. Serial No. 363,580- (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY VVEIS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Burlington, in the county of Des Moines and State of Iowa,haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Egg-Carriers, of which thefol- I lowing is a specification.

My invention relates to egg-carriers of the class formed of pasteboardor similar strips suitably locked together; and it consists in theconstruction hereinafter shown and described.

Like letters refer to the same parts in the several figures of thedrawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the eggcarriercomplete. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same. Fig. 3 is a sideelevation of one of the outer strips of the carrier and a section of thecompanion piece into which said outer piece interlocks.

In egg-carriers previously made by me the outer strips were lockedtogether in a manner similar to that shown at the points between the twoends of the strip shown in Fig. 2, in which I now find a convenient wayof securing the interior strips together. By this method just referredto the one strip was provided with a curved slot and corresponding lip,which latter was fitted into a vertical slot made in the end of anotherstrip, and consequently the weight of the eggs caused a severe strainupon the lip which held the two strips together, and unless the stripswere made of heavy material the lip often broke or bent under the strainand so unlocked the strips. According to my present invention the outerstrips are. locked together and the outer ends of the interior stripslocked to such outer. strips by a different and improved joint. Theouter strips, which are lettered A, are formed with a series of verticalslots at suitable intervals to adapt them to the heads of the otherstrips, and these heads have upon them tenons of a T shape, but with onearm of the T'longer than the other. I prefer to make one arm of the Tabout twice as long as the other; but it is manifest that theseproportions may be varied. The longer arm I letter F, and the shorterarm E. The deeper groove formed between the body of the strip and thelonger arm of the T I letter D, and

the shallow groove I letter O.

The letter G designates the Vertical slots in the outer strip, and theletter B designates the main body of the interior strips,and the letterB designates the heads of the interior strips. The vertical slots G mustbe of such a length that they will enable that section of the head whichis included between the bottom of the deeper groove and the top of theshorter arm of the T to readily pass through such vertical slot.

In arranging the strips to form the carrier the two outer strips atright angles to each other should have the positions of the heads of theinterior strips reversed; or, in other words, the longer arm of theT-head should be arranged at the bottom of the vertical slot in the onestrip and the shorter arm of the T- head should be arranged at thebottom of the slot in the strip at right angles to the firstmentionedstrip. In this way accidental unlocking and displacement of the stripsis avoided.

The interior interlocking joints may be made of any suitable kind, and Ifind it convenient to employ the kind shown in Fig. 2, which is not welladapted to form the outer joints.

Instead of having the heads of all interior strips formed according tomy improved method and looking into the outer strips in this manner, Imay construct the joint between the heads of the interior strips and thebodies of the outer strips in any other wellknown way, inasmuch as Ifind that in most cases it will suffice to use my improved joint as aconnection between the outer strips only; or I sometimes employ one ortwo of my improved joints for locking the interior strips to the outerstrips and lock the other interior strips in some other manner.

It is obvious that other modifications may be made in the details of myinvention without departing from the spirit thereof, and I do not wishto be-understood as confining myself precisely to the form described andillustrated.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In an egg-carrier, the combination of a plurality of strips havingtenons provided with arms of unequal length, and the outer strips of thecarrier having vertical slots tenons are arranged to directly engage,and some of the tenons 0f the strips of the carrier reversely placedwith reference to others of said carrier, substantially us and for thepurpose set forth.

IIENRY WEIS.

\Vitnesses:

B. F. PALMER, FRANK 0. Wins.

